No Time for Bull

Warnings for: cursing, nsfw, ranting, raging, & raving. And, y'know, fangirling.  Note: I will be putting an extravagant navi page. People will be tagged via URL, and there'll be more stuff in my RULES that you can check out and satisfy yourself with knowing. Cool, continue on.  tracked tag: ramblingsofamun

[nkim-illustrates]

Night Star Cat, Cat-O-Lanterns, and Ghost Cats.

[autumnfoxe]

🍂

[xbunnyclawsx]

[halloweenmuffuckas]

[horrorandhalloween]

[mizar113]

[arcaneetherofficial]

[jukeboxofjellycat]

The credit is for the original gif owner.

[twiggymcbones]

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was dumb and bad but babyraptor Blue is EVERYTHING and I love her and I want one <3

[darantha]

Whoops, first I had to delay the sketch because I got sick on saturday when I usually do these, then I forgot to post it when I finished it yesterday.

So uh, a belated Athena, from greek myths, which won my Patreon sketchpoll.

[did-you-know]

Scottish sculptor Rob Mulholland creates creepy mirrored sculptures out of acrylic glass that makes them blend into their surroundings until your perspective shifts and they suddenly catch your eye. Source Source 2

[manicpixiedreamalien]

imagine getting lost in the woods and coming across these

on a scale of 1-10 how ready for death would you be

[jabletown]

i didn’t know chaotic evil looked like someone’s dad from north dakota

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

by  Saad Irfan

[whitepeopletwitter]

[celesse]

The docile Pidgey, native to the Kanto region 

Print available here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/celesse/pidgey-in-a-cheri-tree/

[taichichuwhat-deactivated202201]

- Finally!

[clia123]

Build up to Thor Ragnarok and the big disappointment it was

I remember when it was first announced what Thor 3 was going to be called, I got all excited thinking it was going to be much darker and more epic than Thor Dark World but then we got this

I didn’t like it. This new retro game style look. It felt like such a downgrade as if the tone of the movie had changed but I told myself that I’m sure that wasn’t the case. It was just a different logo nothing more. But then when we got the first look at “the new Thor”:

“This Thor is much funnier.”

That’s when I knew that things had drastically changed and not for the better. His new hairstyle/look. The bright colorful look. The comedic tone vibes. Everything. I just knew it was a bad sign and wrong direction for the movie but since I am of the unpopular opinion, I knew many would disagree and think I was overreacting & jumping to conclusions already. And as I expected, people who didn’t agree with this were made fun of and what made it worse was the director’s response to a fan on Twitter regarding all of this:

“Sounds like they need to laugh.”

In other words, we were told to “lighten up” and not take things too serious. Fine, I thought. I guess I was the only one who felt this way since everyone else seemed onboard with this change. So I decided to give it a chance & see if I was wrong or not. Turns out I was right. Once the tv spots & trailers started coming out, I knew. With every new tv spot only confirmed my fears even more about the “fun” direction this new director was taking and how his treatment of Loki was going to be.

From seeing Loki having things thrown at him while in chains to “Get Help” (which I noticed immediately followed the elevator scene meaning that so-called touching moment btw Thor & Loki was going to be ruined by this funny gag which is exactly the kind of thing that I was afraid of - funny jokes overshadowing the emotional parts), I was feeling very skeptical about all of this. Since I’m not too into comedies, I was very against this approach from the start but I was still willing to give it a chance though I was highly skeptical about it.

Then I read the first early spoilers of the movie ignoring all the positive praise it was getting and only focused on the parts I really cared about - the scenes Loki was in. And what I found out was even worse than I expected and only lowered my expectations for the movie even more because of that one scene where Loki gets electrocuted by Thor.

That was it for me. They completely ruined Thor for me. My fave out of all the Marvel heroes by making him just like every typical arrogant jerk male character that I hate & despise in mostly every form of media ever. The way Thor talked down to Loki in his condescending speech about growth and change with a smug look on his face all while Loki was writhing in pain was utterly revolting and uncomfortable to watch. But unfortunately I had a feeling something like this would happen based on Chris Hemsworth’s previous comments on his character Thor: he got bored playing him which I personally felt was like a slap to the face to every Thor fan who had been emotionally invested in his character up to that point. It made me lose a bit of respect for him. His need to inject more humor or “life” into his character by having him crack jokes just to show how funny he is and how much “more interesting” he was now, as he and Taika believed because apparently Thor was so boring before. Aka “fixing” something that was never broken to begin with. Also how apparently it had been his idea to cut Thor’s hair off simply because he didn’t want to wear the wig anymore was just disappointing to hear. But the biggest giveaway for me was the way Thor & Loki’s relationship was described for this movie particularly Thor’s attitude towards Loki which Tom Hiddleston so heavily emphasized as being “indifferent”. Just based on that word choice I just knew things weren’t going to get any better between them. It told me everything I needed to know. That Thor had given up on Loki by no longer caring for him which made me concerned of Loki’s reaction to this and imagine the possible worst case scenario would occur - Loki becoming desperate for Thor’s approval which I really wished wouldn’t happen but unfortunately it did as I feared it would.

So I knew this movie was going to be a disappointment for me going into the theaters to watch it but I had to see it for myself and see if the movie was really as “funny” as everyone claimed it be. But it was not. It was a total letdown and complete disrespect to us original fans of the Thor franchise esp Loki fans by trashing his character just to make Thor look better and appealing more to mainstream audiences. It just makes me mad to think about how actual fans esp those who were fans of the franchise from the very start were overlooked and screwed just to please the general public.

And as I had suspected, that “touching” elevator scene was the only touching moment we were going to get out of this film between Thor and Loki which was very disappointing but no surprise and their reunion that I had been looking forward to for a very long time was also disappointing and felt very rushed. We waited 4 years for this and this is what we got? I expected better and was hoping Infinity War would fix everything but sadly it didn’t.

[rewritefate]

The “touching” elevator scene isn’t even a genuinely “touching” brotherly moment. 

You can look up this analysis post a little. 

https://lucianalight.tumblr.com/post/171656868608/kaori04-nooo-body-lasimo74allmyworld

[juliabohemian]

The elevator scene isn’t touching. It’s a portrait of familial dysfunction.

[miskiett]

I think I reblogged this before but every time I see it it strikes a chord. I wish I was prepared for the shock of changes in TR but I had no idea. I watched it under very different circumstances and it was a major let down. I’m just gonna vent about it now for my own benefit, and be all sorts of miserable. I did make this blog almost purely to vent so, here we go.

I only watched the Thor movies all in September 2018, two months ago. And I had no idea that TR was going to be the way it was. I was trying to avoid spoilers so I even stayed off social media after watching Thor 1 and being blown away. (I was so surprised by it because I normally find Marvel movies a bit too action-over-brains and shallow. Pure personal taste, no insult intended.) TDW was cool I thought and I was so excited to see TR because I saw so many people say it was the best and that it would unite Thor and Loki. And that’s all I really wanted to see; the brothers sort out their family issues and grow.

So one evening I had just submitted a massive final report on a project which took me a year to complete, so to celebrate I excitedly decided I had time to watch TR. At first I thought some stuff was funny but after a while I realized that I was still waiting for the movie to start, you know, for it to get interesting.

As it went on, I got bored a few times and had to pause it, because I was thinking about other stuff as opposed to what was actually happening in the movie. My adhd people will understand what I’m talking about when I say it takes us 5 hours to watch a 2 hour movie if it’s not that interesting to us. You know that “reading a paragraph while not reading it at all” feeling that many people get while reading something boring? Well this was a major “oh no” moment for me, as I’m very attention deficit and I struggle to watch long movies that are not deep and intriguing enough to be capable of keeping my focus. Flashy-flashy is not going to keep my focus, it is going to overwhelm me with nonsense and make me space out. I had none of that loss of focus in Thor 1 because of the integrity of Loki’s story.

I think I first paused it when Thor was going through that weird scene in the chair explaining Sakaar and I was like “wtf is this crap” and went to get some coffee. I remember getting slightly annoyed at Thor’s callousness overall, and wondering why he was lying and being a bit bratty and manipulative the whole time on Sakaar. He always seemed to be commanding and he had “a presence” before. But he went a bit… Snivelling? While he was on Sakaar. Idk but that’s what I thought and I was literally ??¿? Where is the Prince??

I paused again while he prayed to Odin because we had just been learning what an asshole Odin is and I was confused?? I ended up on Facebook or something and then realized I was supposed to be watching Thor so I went back.

The last time I paused was to sit and cringe. I paused after the electrocution scene with Loki and I just sat there staring feeling weird. I can actually remember that quite vividly because I seriously paused a comedy movie for the sole purpose of processing that I felt weird and needed to just sit and squirm in discomfort and humiliation. I was disappointed as well because I eagerly sat forward when they were teaming up to escape and I was sure that they’d now finally fix things and look eye to eye. That was the interesting part that I had been waiting so long for, the time when they reunite. I thought it was coming and I couldn’t wait. And then I got that instead, Loki being a pointless moron with a nonsensical trick, and Thor gloating at how inferior Loki inherently is while Loki jerked around helplessly on the floor. It actually messed with me quite a bit now that I really sit and think about it. I felt personally humiliated for thinking Thor would respect Loki, because it portrayed Loki as worthless and I felt stupid for thinking that wasn’t the case.

I watched the rest a bit in trepidation and disbelief. I was internally cringing still from the above scene and feeling defensive. I knew Loki would do the “Your saviour is here!” thing as I’d seen it on Instagram, but I couldn’t believe he’d return to Thor after that. When Thor and Loki interacted on the bridge I felt it was an uneasy, unspoken “hold fire” because Loki was cowering or something and not wanting to provoke Thor. When Asgard fell and they told jokes I felt annoyed. And then the movie ended with Thor telling Loki he is not “totally pathetic I guess” and Loki just submitting to that degradation.

??¿?

So when it was done I just sat there like “Oh, it’s finished that’s it.” And I felt noooothing, none of the starry eyed elation and fascination of Thor 1 or the excitement for the next thing I got from TDW. I googled something like “why was Loki a joke in Thor Ragnarok” and came across a reddit I think it was, saying it was to make sure Thor was the favourite. And I felt disappointed and didn’t know exactly why because I also liked Thor a lot and I wanted him to get attention. I just thought the whole thing was very, very weird and disturbing me a bit. 

I forgot about it because I had so much to do the next few days. Later I was hit with confusion, as I sat wondering why the hell it made me feel so personally humiliated. It’s because Loki was degraded and put in his place for being too popular, and the fans who appreciated his complexity were punished and told to fuck off for not liking the “correct” character that Marvel intended them to. That’s why it’s personal. 

I made this Tumblr blog just to post my thoughts to really try work out and process why I felt so awful about this.

And here I am. Have a bit more clarity now, and it’s as disappointing as I feared it would be. I still wonder what happened to this… Really wish I didn’t trust it, to be honest. Would have been less disappointing.

[myoxisbroken-deactivated2024022]

“It’s because Loki was degraded and put in his place for being too popular, and the fans who appreciated his complexity were punished and told to fuck off for not liking the “correct” character that Marvel intended them to. That’s why it’s personal.” - @miskiett​

That’s exactly it, right there.

[breebird33]

“…Sooooon…” they chant in a low whisper as the last week of August begins… 

[hollisketch]

Day 14 of #31daysofharry Kingsley Shacklebolt!

Such a noble and awesome character! My number one pick for Minister of Magic.

“I’d say that it’s one short step from ‘Wizards first’ to 'Purebloods first,’ then to 'Death Eaters,’“ replied Kingsley. "We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”